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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1911

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Homer Durward Kirby (August 24, 1911 – March 15, 2000)

Television host and announcer Durward Kirby is best remembered
for The Garry Moore Show in the 1950s and Candid Camera, which
he co-hosted with Allen Funt from 1961 through 1966.

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ACTOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1899

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James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986)

Cagney won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of
performances. He is best remembered for playing tough guys
in movies like The Public Enemy (1931), Taxi! (1932), Angels
with Dirty Faces
(1938) and White Heat (1949). Orson Welles
said of Cagney that he was "maybe the greatest actor who
ever appeared in front of a camera."

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GAME SHOW DEBUT ON THIS DAY IN 1952

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I’ve Got a Secret is a panel game show produced by Mark Goodson and
Bill Todman for CBS television. Created by comedy writers Allan Sherman
and Howard Merrill, it was a derivative of Goodson-Todman’s own panel
show What’s My Line?.

The original version of I’ve Got a Secret, hosted by radio and television
personality Garry Moore, premiered on June 19, 1952 and ran until April
3, 1967.

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GAME SHOW CELEBRATES FIFTY YEARS TODAY

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Art Fleming

The television game show Jeopardy!, created by Merv Griffin, originally aired in the
daytime on NBC from March 30, 1964 to January 30, 1975. The quiz show became
a weekly nighttime syndicated edition airing from September 9, 1974 to September
5, 1975. Art Fleming was the original host. Various versions of the show have since
followed with Alex Trebek as the present host.

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Alex Trebek

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GAME SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1950

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Bud Collyer

The original Beat The Clock show, hosted by Bud Collyer, ran on CBS
from 1950 to 1958 and on ABC-TV from 1958 to 1961. The show had
several sponsors during this time, with the longest standing being the
electronics company Sylvania. Other versions of Beat The Clock aired 
until 2003. In 2013, the show appeared in TV Guides list of the 60
greatest game shows ever. 

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Announcer Bern Bennett (1950–1958)

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